Student wounded in Denver school shooting dies

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Dec 22, 2013 at 12:01 AMDec 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM

DENVER - Claire Davis, a 17-year-old Colorado student shot in the head this month by a gunman at her high school, died yesterday in a hospital with her family at her side, the facility said in a statement.

DENVER — Claire Davis, a 17-year-old Colorado student shot in the head this month by a gunman at her high school, died yesterday in a hospital with her family at her side, the facility said in a statement.

“Despite the best efforts of our physicians and nursing staff, and Claire’s fighting spirit, her injuries were too severe, and the most advanced medical treatments could not prevent this tragic loss of life,” Littleton Adventist Hospital posted on its official Facebook page.

Davis was the only person wounded by gunfire when Karl Pierson, an 18-year-old senior at Arapahoe High School, entered the school on Dec. 13 and opened fire with a shotgun, police said.